Ebook: The Semitic languages : an international handbook

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Foreword
Contents
1. Introduction
I. Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context
2. Semitic-Egyptian Relations
3. Semitic-Berber Relations
4. Semitic-Chadic Relations
5. Semitic-Cushitic/Omotic Relations
II. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification
6. Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology
7. Reconstructive Morphology
8. Proto-Semitic Lexicon
9. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages
III. The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology
10. Morphological Typology of Semitic
11. Syntactic Typology of Semitic
IV. The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic
12. Akkadian in General
13. Eblaite and Old Akkadian
14. Babylonian and Assyrian
15. Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact
16. Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language
17. Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact
V. The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic
18. Northwest Semitic in General
19. Amorite
20. Ugaritic
21. Phoenician and Punic
22. Biblical Hebrew
23. Mishnaic Hebrew
24. Modern Hebrew
25. Hebrew as the Language of Judaism
26. The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language
27. Old Aramaic
28. Imperial Aramaic
29. Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period
30. Late Imperial Aramaic
31. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
32. Samaritan Aramaic
33. Christian Palestinian Aramaic
34. Syriac
35. Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity
36. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
37. Mandaic
38. Western Neo-Aramaic
39. Ṭuroyo and Mlaḥsô
40. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
41. Neo-Mandaic
42. Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian
43. Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact
VI. The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula
44. Ancient North Arabian
45. Classical Arabic
46. Arabic as the Language of Islam
47. Middle Arabic
48. Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition: The Nahḍa and the Arabic Academies
49. Modern Standard Arabic
50. Arabic Dialects (general article)
51. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula
52. Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia
53. Dialects of the Levant
54. Dialects of Egypt and Sudan
55. Arabic in the North African Region
56. Arabic Sociolinguistics
57. Arabic Urban Vernaculars
58. Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
59. Berber and Arabic Language Contact
60. Arabic-Persian Language Contact
61. Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages
62. Maltese as a National Language
63. Ancient South Arabian
64. Modern South Arabian
VII. The Semitic Languages and Dialects V: Ethio-Semitic Languages
65. Ethio-Semitic in General
66. Old Ethiopic
67. Tigre
68. Tigrinya
69. Tigrinya as National Language of Eritrea and Tigray
70. Amharic
71. The Role of Amharic as a National Language and an African lingua franca
72. Gurage
73. Harari
74. Ethiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact
Terminological index